I personally love getting to see anime on the big screen. It doesn't happen to often, but every once in a great while there will be an anime debut at a theater around here. Luckily I live about an hour away from New York City, so I can head into the city with friends and check out an anime premiere. Other than that, seeing an anime on the big screen is a rarity. That is, until American movie studios decide to take the live-action route.
To say that live-action anime films have been sub-par would be a complete understatement. I don't know what it is about Hollywood, but they can't seem to translate anime into a live-action film. It seems like it should be something that could work, but it just never does. Need I bring up the terrible Dragon Ball film? Fans are still reeling from that creation, which was an absolute disaster.
I'm still trying to figure out why Hollywood feels the need to move away from anime and go live-action to begin with. Do they think that an anime feature just won't appeal to North America? Are consumers not willing to sit down and watch a serious animated film? I'm sure some audience would be lost, but I'm surprised that at least one studio out there hasn't been more willing to take a shot, minus Disney and the Miyazaki films.
How do you feel about live-action adaptations of anime? We know that more are on the way, even if they're taking a long time to surface. There's discussions for Death Note, Akira and others. Is this something you want to see Hollywood push for, or do you wish they'd actually stay with animated features?
I think Hollywood should stay away from anime live-action adaptions. They just can't capture what anime is trying to convey and honestly anime's animation is just so beautiful that live-actions just ruin it. Plus they never get the right characters for the part
ReplyDeleteI really want Hollywood to stay away from Death Note, Ghost in the Shell, and well any other anime, it just feels that any anime they translate to the big screen is always butchered one way or another.
ReplyDeleteUg no thank you. Let's stick with the animation. I'm all for anime being at movie theaters as long as it stays anime and not live action.
ReplyDeleteI like it. ^^ I'm not so against all these movies made based on games or anime. Even if it's crap it's still very unique. You can't see what it would look like in that shape and I love that. So I at least wanna see everything made once, then if it's good or bad is another story. (Obviously most often it's bad)
ReplyDeleteI've probably only seen the live action Death Note movies, though those were made in Japan. But Dragonball did look terrible. I was excited for the Battle Angel movie, but I guess Avatar was too popular to give up millions of dollars..
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